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Apologies AndrewN sir for bumping similar question from RC 3rd time in a row

I am sorry, I am wrong again in similar question.




To the reformers, child labor and industrial home work were equally inhumane practices that should be outlawed, but, as a number of women historians have recently observed, working-class mothers did not always share this view.
The next few sentences cover about this contradiction and conclude in the end : it failed to take account of the economic needs of working-class families.

In my first attempt, I shortlisted B and D
I rejected A: Ironically, though, child labor legislation pitted women of different classes against one another
I rejected A because the key point was to show contradiction between these women. I kept that key point in mind. A talks only something specific about that sentence. But ultimately everything leads to key point that both women views were different
After seeing answers, it seems correct

I rejected C: no challenge to the opinion
E: traditional view is not mentioned

I liked B because while reading the highlighted text, the question is raised why these women views were different .Finally in the end concluding point clarifies the reason. Shal I reject B because no such question is mentioned in the context?
I re-read D: offer an alternative view to the one attributed in the passage to working-class mothers --> offer an alternative view to the view to working-class mothers. But this view was not of working class mothers but was of reformers. So i reject D and choose B in the end.


language in all options seems no soft.

Sir, I loose confidence in these type of questions. The meaning seems clear today. but intention somehow messed up.
When I keep key point I choose B , when i kept discussion to local level ( related with context given in highlighted in sentence) then seems to choose A


Sir, please advise what steps can I follow to avoid errors in these type of questions again and again.

Apologies once again for bothering you for RC for similar type of question.

3. The author of the passage mentions the observations of women historians (the highlight text)[women historians have recently observed] most probably in order to

A provide support for an assertion made in the preceding sentence
B raise a question that is answered in the last sentence of the passage
C introduce an opinion that challenges a statement made in the first sentence of the passage
D offer an alternative view to the one attributed in the passage to working-class mothers
E point out a contradiction inherent in the traditional view of child labor reform as it is presented in the passage